Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

[Many today are saying] that Israel has been replaced by the church, and that, therefore, Joel:3:2I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
See All..., which pronounces judgment upon those who divide the land, no longer applies. To maintain that idea, hundreds of biblical prophecies that foretell a final restoration of Israel in her land would have to be denied or spiritualized. Consider only one of those prophecies:

“I will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD…I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land…. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you…so shall the waste cities be filled flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD” (Ezekiel:36:11And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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How far in the future are these prophesied events? Isaiah’s prophecies end with Israel restored to her land and the Messiah reigning in peace over the entire world. We seem to be experiencing right now the very things that Isaiah foretold would lead up to the final restoration. The language, which we have earlier quoted in part, is riveting:

“Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her…” (Isaiah:66:8-10 [8] Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. [9] Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. [10] Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
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Surely a nation “born in a day” can refer only to the rebirth of Israel in 1948. It was an event unprecedented in the history of mankind. And, as Isaiah describes it, it was also a birth that was not completed in a moment. It has been in process for more than a century and has been coming to a climax over the past sixty-plus years. God is causing “to bring forth,” the womb is open, but Israel will not be fully birthed until she possesses all of the territory that God gave to her, as described in Genesis:15:18-21 [18] In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: [19] The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, [20] And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, [21] And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
See All.... That miraculous birth now being in process, God will not “shut the womb.” This rebirth cannot continue much longer without a full deliverance of Israel.